2024
Inequalities in Treatment Utilization Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Who Are Ineligible for Induction Therapy
Zeidan A, Xu Y, Kapustyan T, Miu K, Chen C, Kamalakar R, Lin C, Ma E, Montez M, Wu Z, Yee T, Sun H, Rava A, Kim S, Huntington S. Inequalities in Treatment Utilization Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Who Are Ineligible for Induction Therapy. Blood 2024, 144: 3795-3795. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2024-200213.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTime to treatment initiationND-AMLAssociated with lower oddsAcute myeloid leukemiaAML treatmentVEN-HMACharlson Comorbidity IndexTargeted therapyInduction therapyFemale patientsMyeloid leukemiaTreatment initiationShorter time to treatment initiationTherapy uptakeMedicare beneficiariesNewly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemiaLower oddsOdds ratioHematopoietic stem cell transplantationTime-to-treatment initiationDiagnosed acute myeloid leukemiaIn-hospital survival rateLow-dose chemotherapyClinical performance statusStem cell transplantation
2023
What Is the Optimal Treatment Modality in Molecularly Defined Secondary AML? a Multicenter Cohort Study
Shimony S, Bewersdorf J, Shallis R, Liu Y, Schaefer E, Zeidan A, Goldberg A, Stein E, Marcucci G, Chen E, Ramos J, Lindsley R, Stein A, DeAngelo D, Neuberg D, Stone R, Ball B, Stahl M. What Is the Optimal Treatment Modality in Molecularly Defined Secondary AML? a Multicenter Cohort Study. Blood 2023, 142: 1478. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2023-172763.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAcute myeloid leukemiaComposite complete responseStem cell transplantationOverall survivalCPX-351Complete responseTreatment modalitiesMonosomal karyotypeCohort studyOdds ratioTreatment groupsLarge multicenter retrospective cohort studyMulticenter retrospective cohort studyAllogeneic stem cell transplantationSecondary acute myeloid leukemiaIncomplete count recoveryImproved overall survivalMedian overall survivalMulticenter cohort studyRetrospective cohort studyWorse overall survivalOptimal treatment modalityOptimal treatment selectionLog-rank testEffect of treatment
2020
Management of hyperleukocytosis and impact of leukapheresis among patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) on short- and long-term clinical outcomes: a large, retrospective, multicenter, international study
Stahl M, Shallis RM, Wei W, Montesinos P, Lengline E, Neukirchen J, Bhatt VR, Sekeres MA, Fathi AT, Konig H, Luger S, Khan I, Roboz GJ, Cluzeau T, Martínez-Cuadron D, Raffoux E, Germing U, Umakanthan JM, Mukherjee S, Brunner AM, Miller A, McMahon CM, Ritchie EK, Rodríguez-Veiga R, Itzykson R, Boluda B, Rabian F, Tormo M, Acuña-Cruz E, Rabinovich E, Yoo B, Cano I, Podoltsev NA, Bewersdorf JP, Gore S, Zeidan AM. Management of hyperleukocytosis and impact of leukapheresis among patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) on short- and long-term clinical outcomes: a large, retrospective, multicenter, international study. Leukemia 2020, 34: 3149-3160. PMID: 32132655, PMCID: PMC8155811, DOI: 10.1038/s41375-020-0783-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myeloid leukemiaOverall survivalMyeloid leukemiaMultivariate analysisLong-term clinical outcomesComposite complete remissionImpact of leukapheresisManagement of hyperleukocytosisMedian overall survivalThirty-day mortalityHigh-quality evidenceWhite cell countProportional hazards modelUse of leukapheresisLogistic regression modelsSignificant resource useIntensive chemotherapyComplete remissionHazard ratioClinical outcomesInferior outcomesUnadjusted analysesQuality evidencePotential complicationsOdds ratio